A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has delayed ruling on whether to dismiss a placeholder criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, leaving intact—for now—a procedural maneuver by the Justice Department as it seeks a grand-jury indictment tied to an alleged 2016 classified leak.

The immediate issue is not Comey’s guilt or innocence, but whether prosecutors may file and…
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A new inter partes review, IPR2027-00030, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on October 30, 2026, in a proceeding captioned Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. For patent litigators, prosecution counsel, and in-house IP teams tracking the overlap between district court disputes and PTAB validity challenges, this is a case worth watching as the record develops.
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A closely watched supermarket merger challenge has ended with the proposed Kroger-Albertsons tie-up collapsing after courts sided with antitrust enforcers, marking one of the most significant recent victories for regulators policing consolidation in consumer-facing markets.

The $24.6 billion deal had drawn lawsuits from the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, who argued the transaction would reduce competition for grocery…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has agreed to rehear en banc a closely watched challenge to Texas’s online content-filtering law, setting up a significant new round in the courts over how far states can go in requiring platforms to screen content for minors.

The case concerns a Texas statute that imposes filtering obligations on online companies…
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In a recent filing in Nonprecedential Opinion, No. 26-6398, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a nonprecedential disposition that is noteworthy less for creating new doctrine than for what it signals about appellate practice in the circuit. Because the opinion is expressly designated as nonprecedential, it does not bind future panels in the same way…
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The Eleventh Circuit’s October 23, 2026 filing in Opinion, No. 26-10485, is notable less for a splashy merits ruling than for what it signals about appellate practice: the court’s treatment of a matter formally captioned only as an “Opinion” underscores how closely practitioners need to read docketed appellate dispositions for clues about jurisdiction, precedential status, and procedural posture.

Based…
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Earlier in my legal career, I was on a legal team that provided pro bono representation to a client who had grown up in foster care and been subjected to horrific abuse. (Certain details pertaining to the representation are being withheld to preserve confidentiality.)
During our calls to discuss case strategy, we often advised the client of…
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There’s a lot of talk these days about what AI can do. Draft briefs. Review documents. Analyze contracts. Conduct research. Brainstorm ideas. Solve problems. And I’d be the first to say, AI can do a lot. But there’s something AI can’t give you. A mindset.The determination to find a way to solve your client’s problem, no matter how difficult it…
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A major federal public-corruption prosecution in Chicago may be heading toward negotiated resolutions instead of a retrial. Lawyers for former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore and longtime lobbyist Michael McClain reportedly told the court they are discussing plea deals with prosecutors, a notable turn in one of Illinois’ most closely watched criminal cases tied to former House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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At its annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco this week, the e-discovery company Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agentic AI investigation suite that orchestrates the full range of the company’s tools to answer questions about a case.The company also launched Workflows, a drag-and-drop tool for automating complex document reviews, and Everlaw for Word, a Word add-in that links Bates citations back…
Continue Reading At Its Annual Summit, Everlaw Unveils Omni, Its Agentic AI Suite, But CEO Says Customers Are Even More Excited About Opening Its Platform to Other AI Tools

NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter believes the document management system is becoming something even greater — a law firm’s organizational intelligence layer. As lawyers increasingly do their work inside AI tools such as Claude, Harvey, Legora and ChatGPT, Baxter says NetDocuments’ job is to build and preserve the firm’s context, then make it accessible through whatever interface the user chooses. He…
Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: NetDocs CEO Josh Baxter on Why the DMS is Becoming the Law Firm’s ‘Intelligence Layer’

Got conferences? If so, then probably one or more of Legaltech Week’s regular panelists has been there in the last couple weeks — from ClioCon in Boston to the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to NetDocuments Inspire in Orland0 and some smaller ones along the way — and we will be sharing our reports and takeaways live today at 3…
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